Wero completes its first e-commerce transaction
Another milestone for the European payment service Wero. TheEuropean Payments Initiative (EPI) has announced that, in partnership with the German cooperative financial network, Wero's first e-commerce transaction has been carried out.
FACTS
- EPI has therefore just announced that it has made it possible to carry out the first successful e-commerce transaction via Wero in Germany.
- This formalisation actually involves a transaction carried out in Proof of concept between late November and mid-December. It involved local banks belonging to the German cooperative financial network Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken and DZ Bank, via its subsidiary VR Payment, and Atruvia, the IT service provider of the cooperative financial group.
- It validated a transaction on the online shop of the German local football club 1.FC Kaiserslautern. Several transactions were then successfully completed to validate the model.
- EPI already plans to carry out further tests of this type throughout the first half of 2025, before officially launching the service in Germany during the summer.
- Belgium will then be the next country affected by this deployment, in the autumn of 2025. The French should be able to make their first payments online via Wero in early 2026. The Netherlands and Luxembourg will follow later.
ISSUES
- A feature opening : Wero's deployment Realized in Germany last July, with the official launch of the service to local users. So far, only the individual payment functionality was operational. But Wero must also allow consumers to pay from online traders directly with their bank account, without any intermediary or additional means of payment.
- Keeping a Promise The use of Wero to make payments online was a promise made by EPI since the first phase of Wero's deployment. This new Proof of Concept is in any case presented by EPI as an important new step in Wero's roadmap. It paves the way for the launch, on the European market, of the case of Wero's use online, scheduled from the summer of 2025.
PERSPECTIVE
- This announcement represents a new milestone for Wero today. The European Payments Initiative (EPIIn the last few weeks, many of the communicating on the deployment of its offer across Europe.
- Most recently EPI , for example, specified the first figures concerning its Adoption in France and its wider deployment to some 17 million users in Europe. The initiative thus seeks to reassure and reaffirm its position in the territory, while its history remains marked by many rebounds.
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